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Information processing apparatus, control method for information processing apparatus, and storage medium

a technology of information processing apparatus and control method, which is applied in the direction of electric digital data processing, instruments, computing, etc., can solve the problems the firmware of the external device also has a risk of alteration or the like, etc., and achieve the effect of suppressing unnecessary power consumption and reducing the risk of abnormal control of the devi

Active Publication Date: 2021-09-07
CANON KK
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The present disclosure provides a mechanism to reduce the risk of devices becoming abnormal due to malicious software or hardware issues. This helps prevent the device from becoming power-hungry and malfunctioning.

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Accordingly, the firmware of the external device also has a risk of alteration or the like.
If the firmware used for the external device is altered, this causes a risk of abnormal control of the device due to the altered firmware or a problem of unnecessary power consumption due to a device that does not operate normally.

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[0017]FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a hardware configuration of an image forming apparatus illustrating one embodiment of an information processing apparatus of the present disclosure.

[0018]The image forming apparatus 1 illustrated in FIG. 1 constitutes one embodiment of the information processing apparatus of the present disclosure.

[0019]In the image forming apparatus 1, a central processing unit (CPU) 101 is a central processing device that operates software that causes the image forming apparatus 1 to operate. A system bus 102 serves as a passage through which the CPU 101 accesses other units and other units access each other. A random access memory (RAM) 104 is a storage region on which a program of the image forming apparatus 1 is expanded and a variable of the program during operation and data are transferred from each unit by the direct memory access (DMA).

[0020]A hard disk drive (HDD) (hard disk unit) 103 stores software of the image forming apparatus ...

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[0065]In the present embodiment, a case where an external device can be partially controlled by only the device driver even without firmware and can be used with a limited function (degenerate operation is possible) will be described. In such a case in a second embodiment, unlike the first embodiment, when the device driver is normal, the external device is not completely powered off, and the external device is used while the external device remains to be powered maintaining a function restricted state. Since the second embodiment is different from the first embodiment in only the activating process of a device driver (the activating process of an external device), only the function thereof will be described, and the description of the same configuration will be omitted.

[0066]FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an example of an activating process of the device driver in the second embodiment. In this activating process of a device driver, verification of the device driver and the fir...

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Abstract

Various embodiments seek to reduce a risk of abnormal control of a device externally connected to a system due to abnormal software that is altered or the like, or to suppress unnecessary power consumption due to a device that does not operate normally. To this end, verification of software is performed at the time of activation of an image forming apparatus, and when the software is determined to be abnormal as a result of the verification, the image forming apparatus is operated with a restricted use of a device corresponding to the software.

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BACKGROUNDField[0001]The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus that verifies software to be used for controlling a device externally connected to a system, a control method for the information processing apparatus, and a storage medium storing a program that performs the control method.Description of the Related Art[0002]In recent years, to improve robustness of a system, a technique has been developed that performs some verification of software before operating the software and starts the operation of the software only when a result of the verification is valid. With this technique, it is possible to determine that software has been altered or the like when the result of the verification is abnormal, prevent an abnormal operation of the software, and prevent unintended control.[0003]Further, some external devices are connected to the system by a bus such as a universal serial bus (USB), a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), or the like. An example o...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F21/52G06F21/55
CPCG06F21/52G06F21/552G06F2221/033G06F2221/034G06F21/57
Inventor YAMASHITA, TAKAHIRO
Owner CANON KK
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